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From: The Hastings Center Report
Date: 20020501
Author:Nicholson, Richard H.

"`Do you know who made you?' `Nobody as I knows on,' said the child ... `I' spect I growed.'"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, 
Uncle Tom's Cabin 

Topsy's account of childhood development could also describe how ethics review of human subjects research came about. William Curran's 1969 paper in Daedalus gives no clue as to why the earliest institutional review boards (IRBs) were set up. A 1962 study found boards in one-quarter of institutions, but Curran's view was that "in the medical research community, prior to 1962, there was a general scepticism toward the development of ethical ...

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